June 4, 2023 8:00pm EDT
Biden appointee calls on UN to create reparations tribunal: 'What justice looks like in the 21st century'
Justin Hansford spoke at the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
By Ashley Carnahan | Fox News
A Howard University law professor called on the United Nations to set up a reparations tribunal and explore options to offer some type of "justice" to Black Americans for slavery.
Justin Hansford, a Biden administration appointee to the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD), made the comments at the PFPAD’s 2nd session last week.
Hansford said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have A Dream" speech lays out the argument for reparations, but the speech has been "distorted, sanitized and drained of its true radical vision."
"Despite that, I believe we can now safely say that Dr. King's assertion that the U.S. Constitution was a promissory note, which came back marked insufficient funds for its Negro citizens, was both accurate and ominous. The truth is, Dr. King believed in reparations. He called for it explicitly up until the last speech of his life. The promissory note, the check that he demanded, according to the terms of the U.S. Constitution, was never cashed. And 60 years ago, until today, the wealth gap between African Americans and White Americans remains exactly the same," he said in the May 30 address.
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